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Vol31no4.Pdf Reuben vs. Reubin -- Portland confab -- Iron men of Patit Creek -- Fort Clatsop burns Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation I www.lewisandclark.org November 2005 Volume 31, No. 4 MICHAEL HAYNES, NORTHERN LIGHTS ''O! How HORRIABLE IS THE DAY'': WEATHER, CLIMATE, AND LEWIS & CLARK THE CORPS OF DISCOVERY'S "RETROGRADE MANEUVERS" GUNSHOTS AT GRINDER'S STAND: WHAT WAS THE SEQUENCE? Contents Letters: Charbonneau; Fort Clatsop; Peale, Catlin, and Coues 2 President's Message: Embracing healing circles 4 Bicentennial Council: Patterns on the Lewis & Clark landscape 6 Trail Notes: Stewardship initiatives look toward tricentennial 8 "O! How Horriable Is the Day" 10 H eat, cold, wind, rain, snow, sleet, hail-L&C chronicled them all. Now meteorological science is mining their journals By Terrence R. Nathan Forecast: Variable 19 A weather sampler on the Lewis and Clark Trail By VernonPre ston Threatening storm on the portage route, p. 11 The Corps of Discovery's "Retrograde Maneuvers" 23 "We proceeded on" may be the journals' most common refrain, but there were days when prudence called for retreat By H. Carl Camp Reviews 28 New Found Land (verse); The Shortest and Most Convenient Route (essays); L&C in Washington; The Salish and Lewis and Clark; La Charrette; In brief: river journey, L&C review L&C Roundup 34 Fort Clatsop destroyed by fire; Patti Thomsen takes reins; Passages: Lucie F. Huger, chronicler of St. Albans For the Record 35 -- Reubin vs. Reuben: What's in a name? Boats in the ice at Fort Mandan, p. 19 By J.I. Merritt Annual Meeting: Members flock to Portland 37 Dispatches 38 Iron men of Patit Creek By Gary Lentz Soundings 40 The gunshots at Grinder's Stand By Ann Rog ers On the cover Michael H aynes's painting Northern Lights shows three members of the Corps of Discovery-Lewis, Clark, and the sergeant of the guard- viewing a display of Aurora borealis on the night of November 6, 1804, when the explorers were constructing Fort Mandan. It was the second of three such meteorological light displays they would witness. For more on meteorology and the expedition, see the companion articles by Terrence R. Nathan and Vernon Preston beginning on pages 10 and 19, respectively. Fighting the Missouri, p. 24 Letters In further praise of the beleaguered Charbonneau November 2005 • Volume 31, N umber 4 We Proceeded On is the official publication of I read with interest H. C arl Camp's piece the L ewis and C lark Trail Heritage Foundation, "Rethinking Toussaint Charbonneau" Inc. Its name derives from a phrase that appears (Soundings, August 2005). His reap­ repeatedly in the collective journals of the praisal of the Corps of Discovery's inter­ expedition. © 2005 preter is perceptive. C harbonneau de­ E. G. C hu inard, M.D., Founder serves a better reputation than he has been ISSN 02275-6706 given. Surely he would have been a fel­ low worth knowing. Editor I suspect there were two other factors J. I. Merritt that diminished him in the records of the 51 N . Main Street expedition: Pennington, NJ 08534 609-818-0168 First, he was a French Catholic, at­ tached to a command of white Anglo­ [email protected] Students' model of Fort Clatsop Saxon Protestants who looked down on Volunteer Proofi'eaders pretty much everybody else. He could vice near Astoria, so I get many interest­ H. Carl Camp have been praised only with faint damns. ing ideas of what the students think the Jerry Garr etc Second, in a trek demanding every last fort looked like based on their interpre­ Printed by PRISM Color Corporation, ounce of youthful vigor, Charbonneau tations of the journals. Moorestown, N ew Jersey was at least twice as old as most of the I also show the students a picture of men. No wonder he sometimes seemed a Clark's drawing of the fort found on the EDITORIAi. B 0ARD drag on them. We old coots of the cover of his elkskin journal. This draw­ James J. Holmberg, leader LCTHF ought to envy and cheer him. ing is very similar to the replica at Fort Louisville, Kentucky Vive Toussaint! Clatsop today. Usually, the models built Robert C. Carriker O n a different matter, I enjoyed Rob­ by my students resemble this drawing in Spokane, Washington ert Archibald's Bicentennial Council col­ some way. However, last year I had a Robert K. D oerk, Jr. umn in the same issue about looking for group of students who came up with a Fo1't Benton, Montana "wildness" on the Lewis and Clark Trail. truly novel interpretation. Glen Lindeman I smiled when I read that today's Missouri On December 13, 1805, Joseph White­ Pullman, Washington River has been "damned" and otherwise house makes the fo llowing journal entry: altered in ways that would make it "We had rain & Cloudy weather, dming Membership Information scarcely recognizable to the captains and the whole of this day. We raised another Membership in the Lewis and C lark Trail their men. I have no doubt that the ex­ line of our Huts. they had 2 Rooms in Heritage Foundation, Inc. is open to the public. plorers, in fact, damned it every day as each hut, & were 16 feet in the clear. We Information and applications are available by & writing Membership Coordinator, Lewis and they struggled upstream, fighting its cur­ finished raising the huts, began the Clark Trail H eritage Foundation, P.O. Box rents, snags, and shoals! foundation of another line of them in the 3434, Great Falls, MT 59403. JAMES ALEXANDER THOM same Manner, of those we had raised. the Charter member, three lines composed 3 Squares, & the We Proceeded On, the quarterly magazine of the Foundation, is mailed to current members The Charbonneau Society other square we intend picketting in, & in February, May, Augu st, and November. Bloomington, Ind. to have 2 Gates at the two Corners." Articles appearing in this journal are abstracted From this information four students and indexed in H ISTORICAL ABSTRACTS and concluded that the original fort had three AMERICA: H ISTORY AND L TFE. rows of huts, not the two seen in the rep­ An alternative Fort Clatsop Annual Membership Categories: lica and sketched on Clark's journal cover. Four years ago, I started teaching a class Srudent $30 They also put the fort's gates at the cor­ Individual/Library/Nonprofit $40 called "The History and Science of Lewis ners of the front wall of the fort. This too Family/International/Business $55 and Clark" as an elective for juniors and differs from the replica, whose two gates Heritage Club $75 seniors at Woodburn High School in are at the front and the back. fa.'P lorer Club $150 Oregon. The class focuses primarily on I was extremely pleased by the stu­ Jefferson Club $250 the journey of the Corps of Discovery dents' careful reading and interpretation D iscovery C lub $500 and the people, plants, and animals they of the journals. Near the end of the class, Expedition Club $1 ,000 Leadership Club $2,500 found en route to the Pacific and back. we took a field trip to Fort Clatsop and O ne of the projects I have the students the students brought along their models. The Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation, Inc. do is construct a model of Fort Clatsop Comparing the models to the replica pro­ is a rax-excmpr nonprofit corporation. Individual based on the journal records. Most of the voked lively discussion. membership dues are not tax deductible. The portion students have not seen the replica of the DAVID ELLINGTON of premium dues over $40 is tax deductible. fort maintained by the National Park Ser- Woodburn, O re. 2 - We Proceeded On November 2005 Expedition geology On November 8, 1806, I appreciated reading " 'Speciroine of the Lewis & Clark came home Stone': The Fate of Lewis and Clark's Mineralogical Specimens," by John W. to Locust Grove. Jengo (wro, August 2005). Thanks to Jengo, John W. Hoganson and Edward In November, 2006, join us to celebrate C. Murphy (coauthors of Geology of the their homecoming. Lewis & Clark Trail in North Dakota), and others, we keep getting portions of the geological aspects of the Lewis and ~ Clark story. I too have collected many rock samples along the trail, and I have written about its geology from the Great Falls to the Pacific. My most prized sample is some "Strater of white earth" (Clark, January 7, 1806), w hich I found on the lower Columbia with the help of Roger Wendlick. Anyone wishing to share information on trail geology or trade mineral specimens can reach me at [email protected]. JoHNW. FISHER Juliaetta, Idaho Historic Locust Grove, Louisville, Kentucky www. locustgrove.org/homecoming.htm Peale, Catlin, and Coues .._____ ___ M y article about C harles Willson Peale in the August 2005 wro mentions Advertise your Peale's influence on the painter George Catlin. My primary L&C products source for this in­ formation did not and services appear in the end- ~~-; notes. It was pages in WPO! 259-260 of Charles Willson Peale: Son of Liberty, Father of Art & Science (1967), by Robert Plate. AD RATES The Catlin-Clark connection is described Inside front or back cover: in William E. Foley's Wilderness Journey: Black & white, $650; color, $750 The Life of William Clark (2004 ), pages Outside back cover: We Proceeded On Black & white, $800; color, $900 233-234 and 251. (Back issues, 1974 - current) On another subject, with Christmas ap­ inside pages (black & white): All back issues of our quarterly proaching, readers might be interested in Full page: 7 1/4 X 9112 $600 a photo (above) I took two years ago of historical journal are available.
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